A Beacon of Light

“I have a conviction that a few weeksspent in a well-organized summer campmay be of more value educationallythan a whole year of formal school work.”~ Charles William Eliot Silver Tree Day Camp is one of the summer programs offered by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. I attended Silver Tree as a camper through…

“The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.”~ Erin Gray It’s been a long time, and I mean a VERY long time, since I’ve walked the recommended 10,000 steps in one day. Today, I’ve already surpassed this milestone, and it’s not even 2:00 p.m.…

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” ~ Mark Twain There are many life lessons I wish I had learned earlier in my life. This is one of them: the value of the pause. I don’t know if it’s human nature or just a personality quirk, but…

“There are friends,there is family,and then there are friends that become family.”~ Unknown Kathy met Cheryl in the late 1960s when Kathy’s family moved to Sunnyvale from Kansas City and Kathy was enrolled at Saint Lawrence Elementary School. Their friendship began as fifth grade classmates. For several years they were teammates on the Saint Lawrence Swim…

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford It has long been said that there is no “I” in the word TEAM. This is true. Some have also pointed out that the word TEAM is actually an acronym: Together Everyone Achieves More. In my experience, this has been proven…

“How amazing it is to find someone  who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”~ Unknown Each blog post I write focuses on one particular thought or theme. This one is different. I’m not sure why I feel inclined to do this tonight, but I’ve had a few random thoughts…

“Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.” ~ Franz Schubert He was called a titan of soothing instrumental piano music. I don’t recall exactly when I became aware of George Winston and his gift for music, but by the mid-1990s, he was one of my favorite entertainers. His…

“We are like books. Most people will only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”~ Emile Zola These words by French novelist Emile Zola got me thinking. Who really knows me? There are many people who think they know me, but do they really? Probably not.…

“The best portion of a good man’s life  is his little, nameless, unremembered  acts of kindness and love.” ~ William Wordsworth I do them. So do you! It might be something as simple as holding a door open for someone entering or exiting a store. It might be slowing down a bit to allow the motorist…

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S. Lewis Motivation — that elusive piece of the puzzle. I found it twenty years ago. I made a commitment to myself at that time to focus on my health. I was in excellent physical condition when Kathy and I married in…